Quotes about Expectations

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears, ' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.

I love children say Sofia. But all the colored women that say they love yours is lying. They don't love Reynolds Stanley any more than I do. But if you so badly raise as to ast 'em, what you expect them to say? Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.